> That said, I don't know what the goals of this language are, and bluntly, perf isn't everything ;) Since the most popular scripting language is Lua, I can na

> That said, I don't know what the goals of this language are, and bluntly, perf isn't everything ;) Since the most popular scripting language is Lua, I can name three big disadvantages of Lua that Umka is trying to fix: - Verbose and unfamiliar syntax - Type error detection at run time instead of compile time (a direct consequence of dynamic typing) - Data structures not compatible with C (which is particularly odd, as Lua is specifically designed to interact with C) So yes, Umka's main goals are not related to performance.